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Barr says Trump tweets 'make it impossible to do my job' amid Roger Stone drama
Barr's unexpected comments came days after Trump, in a late-night tweet earlier this week, criticized career Justice Department prosecutors for recommending a nine-year prison sentence for his former advisor Roger Stone. Senior DOJ leaders then intervened and adjusted the sentencing recommendation downward, saying it was clearly excessive given Stone's obstruction-related offenses. All four prosecutors on the case stepped down within hours.
"I think it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases," Barr said. "I'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody ... whether it’s Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president.”
Barr continued, "I'm gonna do what I think is right, and you know... I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me."
The attorney general said he could not "assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we're doing our work with integrity" if the White House appeared involved in DOJ decisionmaking for political or personal reasons.
In response, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump "wasn’t bothered" by Barr's remarks, even as she defended the president's social media use.
“The president wasn’t bothered by the comments at all and he has the right, just like any American citizen, to publicly offer his opinions," Grisham said. "President Trump uses social media very effectively to fight for the American people against injustices in our country, including the fake news. The President has full faith and confidence in Attorney General Barr to do his job and uphold the law."
Barr and Trump are united in their belief that Trump and his allies have been unfairly targeted, Fox News is told. Republicans have long pointed to the fact that prominent anti-Trump figures, including former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, have avoided prosecution even though they have admitted to leaking and lying to federal investigators.
Barr, speaking to ABC News, said that even prior to Trump's tweet Monday night about the nine-year Stone sentencing recommendation, he was surprised to hear that DOJ prosecutors had sought the harsh penalty -- both because it was inconsistent with the prosecutors' previous discussions with main DOJ and because it did not seem "fair and reasonable" given the facts of the Stone case.
"I was very surprised," Barr said. "Once I confirmed that that's actually what we filed, I said that night to my staff that we had to get ready, because we had to do something in the morning to amend that, and clarify what our position was."
The next day, senior DOJ officials intervened and amended the prosecutors' sentencing recommendation downward, although top DOJ brass have repeatedly said their decision was independent of Trump's wishes.
On Wednesday, Trump praised Barr's handling of the matter: “Congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Evidence now clearly shows that the Mueller Scam was improperly brought & tainted. Even Bob Mueller lied to Congress!”
Given the nature of the highly partisan scrutiny; and considering the rabid media waiting to jump on any narrative engineering opportunity; and with the John Durham investigation outcome looming closer on the horizon; it makes sense for AG Barr to try and create an openly visible disconnect.
In essence Bill Barr is working to emphasize there’s no undue influence, and also emphasize the appearance of no undue influence. The problem, however, is that the media will create the impression of influence even if, and despite the reality of, no Trump influence.
Nothing Bill Barr does and/or says will stop the media from falsely creating a narrative that says President Trump and Bill Barr are colluding to target their political opposition.
The answers in the ABC interview as delivered by Bill Barr only pour fire on a furnace of media intent to controversialize President Trump’s communication approach.
Barr’s intention may have been good (albeit selfish), but declaring that President Trump’s free speech and opinion as an impediment to Barr’s ability is just nonsense.
The emphasis is on the wrong syllable.
President Trump has the right to express his opinion and share his views with The People, the American electorate, who put him into office. The President may do so in any form, manner, venue, method or presentation that fits his needs. Period. Fullstop.
It is not President Trump tweeting that makes Barr’s job more difficult; it is the DC beltway response and media apoplexy directed to the AG that makes things more difficult.
If lawyers have their feelings hurt; or if the sensibility of judges
is wounded; and if the judicial system of the U.S. government is so
tenuous as to be affected by words and criticism; and if AG Barr cannot
simply address the issues therein by appropriately positioning a mirror
to highlight that nonsense; well, that is not President Trump’s issue.
The consequence he describes, the issues underpinning Barr’s
expressed concern, only further emphasizes President Trump’s point about
how the justice system is being compromised by politics and media. The
simple application of law is being ignored; and the system, of which
Bill Barr is the apex participant, is corrupted and diminished by
man-made manipulation based on politics and other factors…
If President Trump saying “this case sucks” via Twitter is enough to
collapse the institutional objectives of a modern judicial system… and
impede the ability of the U.S. Attorney General to do his job, well,
what does that say about how weak and compromised the guardians have
allowed that system to become?
Then again, that level of institutional compromise explains exactly why a fraudulent impeachment attempt was even possible.
Editor Note
The Turtle, Mcconnel said:
“President Trump is delivering too much honest information and direct
opinion in a DC system that relies upon a purely political filter. The
absence of that political filter is creating a problem for all
operational systems in Washington DC.”
Well written and true. But President Trump is not omnipotent so he
still has to be smarter than his opposition and cautious to some degree
in this high stakes battle. His 95% GOP support could shrink if he can’t
bring them all along with him on his swamp clearing adventure.
He can’t
win the political war on Tweets alone especially if he uses the social
media site to criticize opponents about things they have no control over
like their looks and their height.
A leader must know how far ahead of his troops he can go into
dangerous enemy territory alone no matter how determined he is.
Eventually, he will need his troops to be at his side or the battle is
lost anyway.
Losing Bill Barr would be have been his biggest loss to
date IMO. There is still a way he can tweet the truth and not place
unneeded public pressure on crucial Cabinet members. Timing is
important.
I think Presiden Trump is beginning to get the message that maybe he has sorta, kinda kicked himself in the butt with his roger stone tweet.
On Wednesday, Trump praised Barr's handling of the
matter: “Congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr for taking charge
of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have
even been brought,” the president wrote on
Twitter. “Evidence now clearly shows that the Mueller Scam was
improperly brought & tainted. Even Bob Mueller lied to Congress!”
President Trump should hone his tweets and keep away from the tit for tat stuff on twitter when its not going to help his campaign or those of us who support his reelection.
I have always thought that some of President Trump's tweets were ill timed or even a waste of time.
I have seen other tweets by President Trump that were right on the money.
Democrats using the FAKE news media throw everything against the wall to see if it sticks. THERE IS NO NEED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO DO THE SAME VIA TWITTER!
Pete Buttigieg Says Parents Can’t Explain Trump to Their Kids
Feb 11, 2020
Mayor Pete Butttigieg is on the right and his "wife" is on the left.
Okay. So I saw a political ad where Mayor Pete, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was going on and on and on and on and on about how parents in America are struggling to explain President Trump to their children. And then I happened to see this.
Now, what are you shaking your head at in there? I mean, natural conclusion. So, he says Trump causes problems for parents. What about that? If you’re not watching on the Dittocam, what it is, a picture of Mayor Pete kissing his husband, which he does frequently.
Editor Note
If my kids asked me to explain mayor pete I would tell them he is a homosexual with a seared conscience.
1 Timothy Chapter 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
I would also explain to my children Romans 1:26-32
Romans 1:26-32
1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
RUSH: I haven’t done this in a long time. I want to talk about
the Oscars for just a second. Not the awards themselves. But I read, you
know, TV ratings are at an all-time low for this show, the Academy
Awards show. And the real thing I want to talk about is Orson Bean.
Orson Bean is how I want to get into this.
Orson Bean was a healthy, vibrant 91 years old living in California,
and he was hit by a car over the weekend and killed. He was a legendary
television and movie performer. And he was a conservative. He oftentimes
spoke of the Hollywood that existed when he was coming up. It was a
Hollywood that loved God and a Hollywood that loved America. And he
lamented its demise.
He was the father-in-law of Andrew Breitbart. And I don’t know how
many people — I think a lot more people than I’m aware probably know the
story. Andrew Breitbart from California was a born-and-bred radical
leftist. He had no other option. That’s just the way he came out of the
womb. That was his surroundings. That was his universe.
He fell in love with Orson Bean’s daughter, and that, of course,
necessitated Andrew hanging around with Orson Bean. Now, one day — and
I’m gonna really truncate this story — one day at Orson Bean’s home
Breitbart saw a copy of my first book on the shelf, The Way Things Ought
To Be. And he started chiding, “What the hell are you doing with that?
Why in the world would you have a book written by some fascist
right-winger on your bookshelf that anybody could see?”
And the story goes that Orson Bean said, “Andrew, take that book and
read it. Just read it.” He didn’t say anything else. “Just take the book
and read it, Andrew.” And Breitbart did, took the book, read it.
Because of the book, started listening to this program on KFI in Los
Angeles and became a full-fledged, 180-degree convert to one of the most
prominent conservative cultural, pop cultural activists the movement
has ever had.
And he was effusive in his explanation for how it happened, my book.
And it wouldn’t have happened had it not been for Orson Bean. And I had
mentioned this a couple of times over the years and expressed my
gratitude to Orson Bean. I was in the hospital over the weekend and I
got a note, “I’m sure you’ve heard about Orson Bean,” and I hadn’t heard
about anything because I had been out of it. So that’s when I learned
what had happened to Orson.
And reading about it, I found myself reconnecting with this story. And the way Orson told the story interjected with Andrew Breitbart’s own words,
it’s a tear-jerker. And it happened to coincide with the day the
Academy Awards were going to be presented and that show that happened,
and it was an absolute disaster. And I just couldn’t stop thinking about
how Orson Bean was correct in describing how Hollywood used to be. It
used to be every bit as red, white, and blue, God, apple pie America as
any of us are.
This is not a discussion of when that changed and why. We all know
that. So two things about this. And the sound bites I’m gonna need are
near the end. I didn’t see the show, but I saw some video clips that
we’re gonna play the audio from here in a moment. There was a story in —
I’m not sure what the publication. I think it was — (interruption) No,
it wasn’t Vanity Fair. It wasn’t Variety. It might have been Variety.
I’m not sure which.
A story about how the age of the celebrity is dead.
And the point of the story is that the internet has killed the
Hollywood star. And just that subhead, “The Internet Has Killed the
Hollywood Star,” boom, home run, exactly right. And the only people that
don’t know it are the celebrities.
The only people that don’t know it
are the Hollywood stars.
One of my first expressed concerns — and it wasn’t a big one — about
social media was that it was facilitating fantasy, that it was allowing
people to live fantasies that were not true, imagining themselves to be
stars and celebrities and living on the red carpet, all from the
basement while clad in their pajamas, creating literal illusions that
they fall into and believe that end up creating the most unhealthy
circumstances for growing older and maturing and learning how to enjoy
life.
Bonus Editor Note
The above transcript from the Rush Limbaugh show is a small example of Rush's daily explainations of things in the news you will NEVER hear on the FAKE national media.
During obama's term in office Andrew Breitbart died in a very mysterious way the day before he said he was going to publish some damaging information about obama. I have always thought Breitbart was murdered. I also don't believe in coincidences. Was obama or someone working for him involved in Breitbart's death?
President Trump addresses supporters at Keep America Great rally in New Hampshire.
"I had somebody behind me who was mumbling terribly," Trump mused, as chants of "Lock her up!" broke out.
"Very distracting. Very distracting," Trump continued. "I'm speaking, and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me. There was a little anger back there. We're the ones who should be angry, not them."
Before he departed the rally, the president made sure to thank Pelosi for giving Republicans the highest poll numbers they've "ever" had -- or at least since 2005, according to a recent Gallup survey.
Pelosi, who ripped up Trump's State of the Union address as soon as it concluded, was widely criticized especially after videos emerged showing she had visibly torn some of the pages in advance.
"Nine months from now, we are going to retake the House of Representatives, we are going to hold the Senate, and we are going to keep the White House," Trump said to thunderous applause. "We have so much more enthusiasm, it's not even close.
Perhaps worst of all, Trump said, liberals and the "fake news" media simply "can't take a joke."
Huge crowds gathered in the overflow viewing area outside the packed Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) arena in Manchester, which can hold approximately 11,000.
Editor Note
Mumbling and bumbling democrats and the FAKE news media continue to slip on their own banana agenda.
The main thing democrats have going for them is the FAKE news media.
A few quotes from the democrates during their rallys or campaign ads:
JoeBiden jokingly branded a young female votera 'lying, dog-faced pony soldier' during a town hall in New Hampshire Sunday - then claimed he was quoting John Wayne.
Biden insults one of his own supporters again.
Pete Buttigieg “In our White House, you won’t have to shake your head and ask yourself: whatever happened to ‘I was hungry and you fed me. I was a stranger and you welcomed me,’” Buttigieg said, referring to Jesus’ words in Matthew 25:35.
Buttigieg should have quoted,
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Bernie sanders in 2020 is the same bernard sanders of 1977 Sanders had little interest in making a profit from his educational film enterprise. Instead, after his falling-out with Liberty Union, he poured his share of the profits into his pièce de résistance—a documentary on the life of union leader Eugene Debs, who won nearly a million votes running for president from prison on the Socialist ticket in 1920.
“We had gone to New York and lined up Howard Da Silva, who was a big Broadway booming voice actor, to play Eugene Debs’ voice,” Barnett explains. “But that didn’t quite work out, so Bernie ended up doing the narration of Debs’ voice.”
Bernie Sanders is from Brooklyn; Debs was not. The movie also suffered from the filmmaker’s reverence for his subject.
Sanders, one reviewer opined, seemed “determined to administer Debs to the viewer as if it were an unpleasant, but necessary, medicine.”
Bernie Sanders gave a “major speech” explaining what democratic socialism means to him.
Sanders’s 1979 documentary on socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs may offer a more revealing glimpse of Sanders’ socialist vision than his speeches. Sanders wrote, directed, and starred in this documentary.
Some of the quotations from Debs which Sanders speaks in his own voice and presents in an entirely positive light in this documentary will take you aback.
For example: “while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Crime here is seen as nothing but a product of exploitative capitalism. Sanders also clearly approves of Debs’ attribution of racial animosity in the South to a plot by employers to undercut “working class unity.”
This is classic Marxist doctrine. Sanders also emphasizes the importance of Marx’s writings to the development of Debs’ socialist thought.
Given that Sanders holds out Debs as a hero in this documentary, given the complete harmony between the documentary’s point of view and Debs’ own point of view, given Sanders’ failure to create any distance between the documentary itself and Debs’ most controversial statements and actions, and given Sanders proud invocation of the documentary and his admitted hero-worship of Debs twenty years after the film was made, it seems fair to say that this documentary offers an important window onto Bernie Sanders’ socialism.
Sanders’ treatment of Debs’ support for Russia’s communist revolution of 1917 is particularly striking. Here, at least, you might expect a bit of distancing or criticism from a truly “democratic” socialist. Yet Sanders obviously admires Debs’ decision to give “unqualified support to the Russian Revolution which had just taken place under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky.”
When Sanders turns to explaining the decline of Debs’ Socialist Party after 1917, he attributes it to the party’s opposition to World War I and to fear of persecution. Nowhere does Sanders suggest that the Russian Revolution and its aftermath may have raised legitimate concerns about socialism.
Sanders’s honeymoon in the Soviet Union and his trips to Cuba and Nicaragua make a lot of sense in light of his documentary on his communist hero Debs.
Bernard Sanders was and is still, at heart, a neurotic socialist.
Sanders was initially drawn to Sigmund Freud and his theories as a high school student in Brooklyn. He then studied psychology at the University of Chicago and at the New School for Social Research in New York.
He worked at a mental institution in New York City before settling in Vermont for good in 1968. Like many lefties of his time, he was heavily influenced by the Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich, a disciple of Freud whose work drew a connection between sexual repression and fascism. When Paris student demonstrators took the street in that year, they held up copies of Reich’s book.
In a 1969 essay for the Freeman called “Cancer, Disease and Society,” Sanders, then 28, contended that conformity caused cancer by breaking down the human spirit and inflicting emotional trauma.
He quoted liberally from Reich’s 1948 book, The Cancer Biopathy, which, he noted, was “very definite about the link between emotional and sexual health, and cancer,” and he walked readers through Reich’s theory about the consequences of suppressing “biosexual excitation.”
In 1969, bernard wrote:
The Revolution is coming and it is a very beautiful revolution. It is beautiful because, in its deepest sense, it is quiet, gentle, and all pervasive. It KNOWS.
What is most important in this revolution will require no guns, no commandants, no screaming “leaders,” and no vicious publications accusing everyone else of being counter-revolutionary.
The revolution comes when two strangers smile at each other, when a father refuses to send his child to school because schools destroy children, when a commune is started and people begin to trust each other, when a young man refuses to go to war, and when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has ‘taught’ her and accepts her boyfriend’s love.
The revolution comes when young people throughout the world take control of their own lives and when people everywhere begin to look each other in the eyes and say hello, without fear. This is the revolution, this is the strength, and with this behind us no politician or general will ever stop us. We shall win!
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Bonus Editor Note
Bernard should have been treated in a mental institution instead of working in a mental institution.
He explains his radical communist past writings by saying that was years ago and his views have changed.
Bernie hasn't changed his views. He is still a skunk spewing his communist agenda of lies.
Who will the democrate cream of the FAKE news media crop be?
Joe biden? A liar, idiot, plagiarist, criminal?
Buttigieg? A liar and homosexual?
Bernard sanders? A liar and communist?
Pocohontus warren? A liar and fraud? She uses Identity politics and radical dishonesty.
Democrates don't see these people as having any faults.
This is because most democrates themselves are all the above and identify with some of their traits.
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Elizabeth Warren Is a Fraud
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has been telling a story for years. It’s a deeply romantic story about her parents and their young love, fraught with the familial bigotry of an earlier time. Here’s how she told it this week in a video she released in preparation for her 2020 run:
My daddy always said he fell head over heels in love with my mother the first time he saw her. But my daddy’s parents, the Herrings, were bitterly opposed to their marrying because my mother’s family, the Reeds, was part Native American. This sort of discrimination was common at the time. So when my momma was 19 and my daddy was 20, they eloped. And together they built a family, my three older brothers and me.
They were a regular Romeo and Juliet of the American plains.
There’s only one problem with Warren’s story:
There wasn’t a shred of evidence that Warren had Native American ancestry, outside of her claims that she did.
For years, she portrayed herself as Native American in legal directories. And she has maintained her Native American ancestry in politics as well.
Whatever credibility Warren had on the issue has been shattered — by Warren herself. Irked at President Trump’s irreverence regarding her purported bloodline, Warren released the results of a DNA study done by Professor Carlos Bustamante of Stanford University.
Those results showed that a Native American ancestor may have existed in Warren’s family tree “in the range of 6–10 generations ago.”
This would make Warren somewhere between 1/64th Native American and 1/1024th Native American.
It’s quite hilarious — and remarkably tone deaf — that Warren thought the study would make her problems go away rather than exacerbate them. But she was counting on a little help from her friends in the media.
They did their best. The Daily Beast headlined, “Elizabeth Warren Fights Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ Taunt with DNA Test Proving Native-American Roots.”
NBC went with “Elizabeth Warren Releases DNA Results Indicating She Has Native American Heritage.”
MSNBC cheered, “DNA Test Results Allow Elizabeth Warren to Turn the Tables on Trump.”
But at of the day , her narrative had absolutely collapsed:
Even the Cherokee Nation released a statement blasting Warren for her pretentions to Native American group membership.
So, here’s the question: Why was this so important to Warren?
After all, she could rest on the fact that the Boston Globe reported just six weeks ago that Warren’s Native American status wasn’t a factor in her hiring at Harvard Law School.
This was FAKE news because it was a factor.
Why couldn’t Warren just say — as, in fact, she claims in the pages of the Globe — that she claimed Native American ancestry because she believed the stories she was told by her female relatives, and that those claims may have turned out to be false but had no impact in any case on her career development?
Because claiming minority status did and does have value to Warren.
Her Native American ancestry claims was a factor in her hiring at Harvard Law. The University of Pennsylvania listed Warren’s 1994 teaching award in its Minority Equity Report.
Harvard Law listed her as Native American in the university’s annual affirmative-action report; administrators listed her as such from 1995 to 2004. It took real action from Warren herself to be listed as Native American at the institutions at which she worked.
Minority status adds luster to a résumé in academia.
And in politics. Warren knows that without her claims of Native American ancestry, she’s merely another successful white woman in an era in which the base of her party has dismissed white women as part of the privileged class.
Claiming connection with a historically disadvantaged minority is politically useful to Warren — even if that connection is gossamer-thin.
By the intersectional logic of the Left, ancestry is destiny, and those of minority ancestry are bound together by a common fate.
Warren wants to be seen as part of that coalition. She can’t be unless she can claim victimization on grounds of something beyond sex — female status isn’t enough these days.
Thus, Warren, using a perversely race-centric view of the world that suggests one drop of Native American blood renders you Native American, has classified herself with emerging future of the Democratic party rather than with its demographic past.
Perhaps the Left will let her get away with it. Perhaps they won’t.
But the saga of Elizabeth Warren demonstrates once again that the ugly new identity politics dominating the Left drives its own acolytes to radical dishonesty to avoid being cast out of the club.
Ugly identity politics and radical dishonesty other faces include:
Democrats in congress are a cancer on America. President Trump and Americans who support President Trump fight the democrate cancer daily.
We The People are seeing the democrate cancer going into remission now that the fake impeachment trial has ended and the US Senate has aquitted President Trump. This democrate cancer on America can only be cured by the removal of democrates in congress and all over America.
Democrates have become a type of disease under the abnormal direction/deception/lies of speaker pelosi and aoc type socialists. This disease is spread through contact with the mass fake news media.
It is called Trumpderangement syndrome (TDS).
Nancy pelosi is in the last stage of this disease as her symptoms were manifested and on display in President Trump's State Of The Union Address.
To avoid exposure just avoid contact with FAKE news, cnn, msnbc an most of the media in America.
The mass FAKE news media produces news in a FAKE or sensational manner to promote their ratings and promote democrate indoctrination of those who are susceptible to their propaganda.
There is a cure for self imposed ignorance. storyreportscomments.blogspot.com
Wear your MAGA hat with pride in America and reelect President Trump in 2020.
Put the democrate cancer in permanent remission in November 2020.
President Trump delivered an optimistic, inspirational, forward-looking State of the Union address.
After his address speaker nancy pelosi ripped his speech up for all of America to witness the democrate cancer on America spreading.
President Trump is the cure for this radical socialist cancer on America along with all those who support President Trump.
Surgery is needed in November 2020 to remove the democrate cancer from America.
Preperation is needed for this "surgery".
All those who support President Trump will need to campaign for his reelection and other Republicans across the nation.
The democrate aoc/pelosi/obama/clinton cancer is spreading quickly.
It has already made the USA "sick" with symptoms of Trumpderangement syndrome.
Trumpderangement syndrome (TDS) is a term for criticism or negative reactions to United States President Donald Trump that are irrational and have little regard towards Trump's actual positions or actions taken.
FAKE NEWS national media are all infected with Trumpderangement syndrome (TDS).
Exposure to the FAKE NEWS national media puts you at risk for getting the disease.
Symptoms include:
(1) Ignoring facts that can be corroborated.
For those of you in Rio Linda as Rush says, here is the definiton.
Corroborateto support with evidence or authority : make more certain
(2) Quoting FAKE news without ever checking the facts.
(3) Getting crazy over someone wearing a MAGA hat and calling them a racist etc. (4) Supporting the DNC and democrates automatically without rational thought. (5) Never listening to the real news which is NOT the FAKE national news media. (6) Being in a perpetual state of hatefulness toward those who support President Trump. (7) Living in the virtual reality world of Twitter coexisting in a state of hate.
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Rush Limbaugh presented with Medal of Freedom by first lady at SOTU
President Donald Trump asked the First Lady to bestow Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award at the State of the Union.
RUSH: Numerous requests are pouring in. You know, this is a program that knows no limits and boundaries.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom: It’s Just So Beautiful
Feb 7, 2020
RUSH: For those of you watching on the Dittocam, this will also be at RushLimbaugh.com. I want to show you a picture up close of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That is it right there. And I couldn’t stop looking down at it the whole time that I’m wearing it. The clasps in the back, it’s just beautiful.
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Bonus Editor Note
Nancy pelosi and democrates in congress and around the nation know they are losers in any contest with President Trump.
Time after time President Trump continues to Make America Great Again.
The democrates will continue to produce FAKE news and lies.
President Trump will continue to refute the FAKE news on behalf of those who support his efforts in in spite of those who don't.
FAKE news will continue to pump out lies daily in a futile effort to keep President Trump from Making America Great Again.
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.
We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. cowards and hypocrites Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
In a 1987 special election nancy pelosi was elected to congress for the first time. She has been elected 17 times since then.
Pelosi seeks power as the speaker entirely for her own sake. She is not interested in the good of others only power.
She has spoken of russian oligarchs.
For those of you in Rio Linda, as Rush says, the definition of oligarch is:
A member or supporter of an oligarchy.
Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may be distinguished by nobility, wealth, education or corporate, religious, political, or military control.
Nancy pelosi is an oligarch member of the "deep state".
FAKE news media are also members of the "deep state" oligarchy.
She and her fellow members will do ANYTHING to retain power in government including trying to destroy the US Constitution. Pelosi is a coward and hypocrite as are her fellow members.
"The object of power is power."
Pelosi and her fellow democrates are clear and present danger to America and our Republic.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
In his book 1984 George Orwell detailed exactly what the "deep state" via the FAKE news media and the FAKE democrate party have done and are doing.
They are constantly trying to rewrite history by destroying or falsifying documents, as in the recent FAKE impeachment trial of President Trump, or promoting the follwing:
(1) Rewriting history in schools and universities.
(2) Destroying documents when investigations are started for corruption. (3) Requiring and demanding statues be removed on the basis of racism etc.
(4) Requiring or demanding buildings be renamed because of their politically correct version of racism.
(5) Taking every opportunity to discredit the Constitution and those who wrote it as a racist document conceived by racist founders of America.
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
That present day part is the democrate party.
The democrate party is trying to destroy America.
President Trump and all those who support him are patriots who will not allow this to happen without a fight.
Social media is the "battle ground".
This blog is on the offense in the battle for liberty and freedom.
Many search engines don't allow true searches when you type in a word or phrase.
Many liberal FAKE news websites also don't allow patriots to make their views known.
These organizations filter out your views if you support President Trump.
This "battle field" is not level or fair.
It is skewed in the FAKE news favor but President Trump continues to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN in every social media battle, rulings by the courts and in the court of public opinion. This is driving the FAKE social media into desprarate measures as witnessed in the FAKE impeachment articles and the vindication of President Trump in the US Senate.
Falsehoods/lies are NOT “alternative facts.”
In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, ‘alternative facts’ — there
called ‘untruths’ and ‘doublespeak’ — are employed by an authoritarian
government in an attempt to control the narrative of its people’s
reality.
Double speak and lies are employed by the FAKE news media and democrates in congress and around the nation.
Their objective is to discredit President Trump and his supporters.
They are failing daily.
The "authoritarian government" is the radical democrates in congress who are trying to shred the US Constitution just like nancy pelosi shredded President Trump's State Of The Union Address! Remember this quote:
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
President Trump is on the "battlefield" of social media.
His musket is his twitter account where he fights for liberty everyday.
If you support President Trump, help him by keeping your "powder" dry and reloading his "musket" so he can continue to deter the enemy which are the democrates in congress and their leaders.
This is done by refuting the democrate lies with the truth, a revolutionary act, in this time of social media universal deceit by FAKE news.
It is also done by helping in President Trump's reelection and the election of majorities in the US House Of Representatives and US Senate.
This would include voting out rinos like mitt romney and those who oppose President Trump.
Just like in 1776 people had to take a side in the fight.
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Remember God's providence is always in control no matter what anyone does.
His will be done.
God is in control of everything.
We are not but we think we are.
I believe God uses people to produce the outcome of his will everyday.
Some people resist the authority of their Creator Jesus. Those who reject Jesus.
Some people accept the authority of their Creator Jesus. Those who accept Jesus as their Saviour.
Senate ACQUITS Trump on abuse of power, obstruction of Congress charges
Editor Note
Rush Limbaugh expanded on certain words’ definitions so people are not left out who need to know the meaning of unfamiliar words or even simple words. Those in denial will not accept the US Senate verdict on 2/5/2020.
Therefore I will explain the words ACQUIT and VINDICATE for you and others like Rush Limbaugh using the phrase, "for those of you in Rio Linda".
An example could be the word ACQUITS.
For those of you in Rio Linda California ACQUITS means:
Acquit definition is - to discharge completely (as from an accusation or obligation.
This means the US Senate acquitted President trump by a formal decision in his favor with respect to the 2 charges charges of impeachment.
Also for those of you in Rio Linda Calfornia vindicate means:
vindicate
To free from allegation or blame.
The lawyers in the FAKE impeachment trial of President Trump VINDICATED President Trump of the two FAKE impeachment changes of the house of representatives.
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Rio Linda Explained for Those in Rio Linda and Democrates In Congress and Elsewhere
RUSH: Sue in Fort Myers, Florida. It’s nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It’s a pleasure to speak with you.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: My husband and I have been listening to you for, I don’t know how many years, since Clinton was in office, and somehow or another we have missed to understand your reference to Rio Linda, California.
RUSH: You know, this happens periodically. I will reference Rio Linda but there are people who have not heard the explanation now and then.
Very briefly, because most of the audience knows what it is. I moved to Sacramento in 1984, and I was to start my show there October the 15th. So I got there a couple weeks early, and I drove around to try to familiarize myself with the community about which I was going to soon be speaking.
So I’m driving around, and I went up to one of the Air Force Bases, I think there were two of them out there, and I now get them confused, but I think this was McClellan. Anyway, I’m driving around out there, and, all of a sudden, I come across this one-lane or two-lane road leading into what looks like oblivion, and the population sign or the city designation sign says Rio Linda and there’s no number there in terms of how many people live there.
You know, most population signs always say the population, at least they did when I grew up, so I figured nobody is willing to admit living there, so let me go look at it.
I’m driving down this two-lane road, and I see houses with refrigerators, the door is open on the porch. I see cars jacked up on concrete blocks in the front yard, dogs running around chasing garbage in the front yards, and I said ‘Whoa, what is this place?’ So I went back and I asked people at the radio station, KFBK, ‘What is this Rio Linda place?’ And they said, ‘Well, it is what it is; there are some nice areas of it, too, but you just happened to go through the bad part.’
So I offered, after having seen the place — and I used to have a shtick back then of always picking a local community and making fun of it just as a broadcast technique — so I offered to move there to elevate property values if they would rename the place Limbaugh, California.
They refused, of course. I also tried the same thing with West Sacramento, and that bombed out as well. But ever since Rio Linda has just been my pet little favorite community to pick on.
Property values have since risen out there. But you can drive and still see some of the things I saw when you drive through town.
I love the people of Rio Linda and I want to make sure they understand what’s being discussed on the program, so I always will change or expand certain words’ definition so they are not left out.
It’s an act of true compassion by a broadcast specialist.
Senate acquits Trump on abuse of power, obstruction of Congress charges
The Senate overwhelmingly acquitted President Trump on both articles of impeachment against him Wednesday afternoon following a brief trial, in a historic rejection of Democrats' claims that the president's Ukraine dealings and handling of congressional subpoenas merited his immediate removal from office.
By a final vote of 52-48 against conviction on the abuse of power charge and 53-47 against conviction on the obstruction charge, the Senate fell far short of the two-thirds, 67-vote supermajority needed to convict and remove the president.
McConnell also said he was "perplexed" by Democrats' arguments that the evidence against Trump was overwhelming and obvious, but at the same time, more witnesses and evidence were desperately needed.
He called the proceedings a "thoroughly political exercise," and added that ironically, Pelosi was right "in the beginning" when she didn't want to go down this path.
Bonus Editor Note
Invoking Rush Limbaugh's "For those of you in Rio Linda", a 52-48 vote on FAKE article 1 amd 53-47 vote on article 2 is a fairly close vote.
52 republicans voted to ACQUIT President Trump on FAKE article 1.
47 democrates, all the democrates in the US Senate, including 1 republican voted to convict President Trump on FAKE article 1. 53 republicans, all the republicans in the US Senate, voted to ACQUIT President Trump on FAKE article 2. 47 democrates, all the democrates in the US Senate, voted to convict President Trump on FAKE article 2.
A 67-vote majority was needed to convict and remove the president.
The democrates were 19 votes short on article 1.
The democrates were 20 votes short on article 2.
"For those of you in Rio Linda" this means the votes to convict President Trump on the 2 FAKE impeachment articles were NOT CLOSE!
All the democrates voted to remove President Trump from office.
All of the Republicans except, "Pierre Delecto", mitt romney voted to ACQUIT President Trump of the 2 FAKE article of impeachment fro the house of illrepute.
Some additional information about, "Pierre Delecto", mitt romney:
Three things about mitt romney:
1) Mitt Romney has a lurker Twitter handle.
2) The handle name is "Pierre Delecto."
3) "C'est Moi" is how Romney confirmed to a reporter that he was Delecto and Delecto was him.
But before you just laugh off the whole thing, let's dive a little deeper into Romney's decision to start (and maintain) this account. Because there's a kernel of something important here.
Romney himself described his decision to create the account in an interview with The Atlantic's McKay Coppins:
"He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account — 'What do they call me, a lurker?' — to keep tabs on the political conversation. 'I won't give you the name of it,' he said, but 'I'm following 668 people.'"
We learn that "Pierre Delecto" that Romney wasn't strictly a lurker since, by definition, a lurker doesn't comment on things, only watches.
Romney is lying about being a lurker.
Some of Pierre Delecto's tweets (Romney made the account private once its existence was revealed.)
For the most part, they represent an attempt by Romney through Pierre Delecto to make the case that he remains one of the few principled Republicans left in Washington.
In one response to criticism of Romney from liberal commentator Soledad O'Brien, Pierre noted that Romney (AKA him) was the "only Republican to hit" Trump on the Mueller Report and defended his "moral compass."
In another, Delecto defended Romney from a Twitter onslaught by Washington Post blogger and Trump critic Jennifer Rubin. (Pierre Delecto defended himself.)
The most important of Delecto's 10 tweets was a response to Fox News commentator Brit Hume that questioned Romney's loyalty to party.
"Loyal to principle trumps loyalty to party or person, right Brit?" asked Delecto/Romney.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee -- and a sitting US senator! -- felt the need to defend his commitment to his party from behind the veneer of a fake person's account on Twitter.
Pierre Delecto, mitt romney, used a fake Twitter person to defend himself and his image.
Bonus Editor Note 3
Mitt Romney, ie Pierre Delecto, displays the veneer of a fake person's persona in real life.
This FAKE person is Willard Mitt Romney, ie Pierre Delecto in reality.
He was "wounded" by President Trump and is bitter.
His one BenedictArnold vote on arcticle 1 of impachment is an attempt to damage President Trump but this has failed.
Pierre Delecto voted to vindicate President Trump on article 2 of impeachment.
Williard Mitt Romney is Pierre Delecto.
Pierre Delecto hides behind a veneer of a thin skinned layer of deception.
For those of you in Rio Linda:
Veneer is a superficial or deceptive appearance, display, or effect.
Another word that describes Pierre Delecto is Facade.
For those of you in Rio Linda:
Facade is a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect
Mitt Romney, pierre delecto is a BAD failed actor in the US Senate.
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Bonus editor note 4
Democrats in congress are a cancer on America. President Trump and Americans who support President Trump fight the democrate cancer daily.
We The People are seeing the democrate cancer going into remission now that the fake impeachment trial has ended and the US Senate has aquitted President Trump. This democrate cancer on America can only be cured by the removal of democrates in congress and all over America.
Democrates have become a type of disease under the abnormal direction/deception/lies of speaker pelosi and aoc type socialists. This disease is spread through contact with the mass fake news media. To avoid exposure just avoid contact with FAKE news.
You can do this by listening to rushlimbaugh.com or marklevinshow.com or 1063word.radio.com
The mass FAKE news media produces news in a FAKE or sensational manner to promote their ratings and promote democrate indoctrination of those who are susceptible to their propaganda.
There is a cure for self imposed ignorance. storyreportscomments.blogspot.com
Where your MAGA hat and reelect President Trump in 2020.
Put the democrate cancer in permanent remission in November 2020.
The final failing arguments of democrate US Senators, in the FAKE impeachment trial, pale and fade in comparison to President Trump's victory State Of The Union speech.
President Trump waxed eloquent about his accomplishments and highlighted past failures of the democrate party.
This led to speaker pelosi ripping up President Trump's State Of The Union speech in an emotionally shattered and distraught display of despair! Her action was abuse of power.
If you watched President Trump's State Of The Union speech it was obvious nancy pelosi was talking to herself, as she mocked President Trump and made hand and facial expressions worthy of contempt from Americans.
Nancy pelosi displayed the "contempt of congress" as she sat in distain to dishonor President Trump and all Americans.
President Trump has said that nervous nancy is not playing with a "full deck" meaning she has mental issues that are obvious displays that lack emotional and mental stability.
Fox News Article About President Trump's State Of The Union Speech
President Trump went on the offensive against socialism and left-wing policies during a defiant third State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night.
Drawing groans from Democrats in attendance and prompting a furious House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to rip up her copy of Trump's speech as soon as it concluded in a remarkable scene.
The White House responded almost immediately by referencing several of the guests of honor whom Trump had introduced during the State of the Union address.
"Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:
One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.
The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.
The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.
A service member's reunion with his family," the White House said in a tweet.
"That's her legacy."
Speaking to Fox News' "Hannity," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called Pelosi's actions "disgraceful" and "disgusting," saying they made him "angry."
Some commentators accused Pelosi of hypocrisy, noting that back in 2009, she had called on a Republican congressman to apologize or face formal censure for shouting during President Obama's State of the Union address, "You lie!"
The flareup was a harsh reminder of the partisan discord pervading the halls of Congress, even as Trump in his speech all but ignored the historic impeachment drama that flanked this year's address -- a fight virtually certain to end with Trump's overwhelming acquittal on Wednesday.
Trump opted in his remarks to publicly challenge Democrats on policy grounds while touting what he called the "blue-collar boom" in the country.
The tensions over impeachment appeared to surface early on, however, as Pelosi refused to introduce Trump by saying it was her "distinct honor" and "high privilege" to do so, as is tradition.
Instead, she simply introduced him as the President of the United States.
Then, Trump seemingly snubbed a handshake offer from Pelosi, while Republican lawmakers chanted, "Four more years!"
But, the president did not shake Vice President Mike Pence's hand, either, and it appeared he may simply not have noticed Pelosi reaching out her hand.
The night was full of other dramatic, made-for-TV moments: Trump introduced a warfighter back from his fourth Afghanistan deployment to his shocked wife (which was not included in prepared remarks of the speech delivered in advance to reporters);
awarded radio host Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom on the spot;
issued an academic scholarship to a needy family; and introduced a surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
And he began to shape what could be part of his re-election campaign message.
"As we work to improve Americans' health care, there are those who want to take away your health care, take away your doctor, and abolish private insurance entirely," Trump said. "One hundred thirty-two lawmakers in this room have endorsed legislation to impose a socialist takeover of our healthcare system, wiping out the private health insurance plans of 180 million Americans. To those watching at home tonight, I want you to know: We will never let socialism destroy American health care."
He added: "Over 130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our Nation by providing free taxpayer-funded healthcare to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders. These proposals would raid the Medicare benefits our seniors depend on, while acting as a powerful lure for illegal immigration."
Pelosi appeared to mouth "not true" as Trump said Democrats would pay illegal immigrants' health care -- although virtually all Democratic presidential contenders indicated they would support such a measure during a recent debate.
"This is what is happening in California and other States -- their systems are totally out of control, costing taxpayers vast and unaffordable amounts of money," Trump continued. "If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free healthcare to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left. But if you believe that we should defend American patients and American seniors, then stand with me and pass legislation to prohibit free Government healthcare for illegal aliens!"
The address comes one day before the Senate is slated to deliver its verdict in the impeachment trial that has divided the nation. Trump is widely expected to win acquittal. But he did not mention those proceedings directly in his speech.
Drawing some audible murmurs of disapproval from Democrats in the chamber, Trump repeatedly took aim at the Obama administration's economic and foreign policies.
President Trump said,
"Socialism destroys nations. But always remember, freedom unifies the soul."
"If we had not reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witness to America's great economic success," Trump said. "Under the last administration, more than 10 million people were added to the food stamp rolls.
Under my administration, 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps, and 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare."
As he did during the 2019 State of the Union, Trump again directly condemned socialism -- and introduced a high-profile guest from embattled Venezuela.
"Joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó," Trump said. "Mr. President, please take this message back to your homeland. All Americans are united with the Venezuelan people in their righteous struggle for freedom! Socialism destroys nations.
But always remember, freedom unifies the soul."
Drawing more audible complaints from Democrats, Trump further hammered "sanctuary city" policies that shield illegal immigrants from federal immigration authorities.
"Tragically, there are many cities in America where radical politicians have chosen to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegal aliens," Trump said.
"In Sanctuary Cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public, instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed. Just 29 days ago, a criminal alien freed by the Sanctuary City of New York was charged with the brutal rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman.
The killer had been previously arrested for assault, but under New York's sanctuary policies, he was set free. If the city had honored ICE's detainer request, his victim would be alive today. The State of California passed an outrageous law declaring their whole State to be a sanctuary for criminal illegal immigrants -- with catastrophic results."
'Blue-collar boom'
"The state of our union is stronger than ever before," Trump declared early on to applause, as most Democrats -- including those who have recently sought to have the president removed from office -- remained seated, stone-faced and apparently dejected.
"Since my election, the net worth of the bottom half of wage-earners has increased by 47 percent -- 3 times faster than the increase for the top 1 percent," Trump said. "After decades of flat and falling incomes, wages are rising fast -- and, wonderfully, they are rising fastest for low-income workers, who have seen a 16 percent pay-increase since my election. This is a blue-collar boom."
Trump praised Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying the agency "has arrested over 5,000 wicked human traffickers -- and I have signed 9 pieces of legislation to stamp out the menace of human trafficking, domestically and around the globe."
As he often does during his campaign rallies, the president went line-by-line through unemployment statistics, drawing some applause from even Democrats in the chamber.
"The unemployment rates for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans have reached the lowest levels in history," Trump said. African-American youth unemployment has reached an all-time low.
African-American poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest level in almost 70 years -- and last year, women filled 72 percent of all new jobs added.
"The veterans' unemployment rate dropped to a record low," he continued. "The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all-time low. Workers without a high school diploma have achieved the lowest unemployment rate recorded in United States history. A record number of young Americans are now employed."
The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Trump said, would only accelerate job growth.
"One of the single biggest promises I made to the American people was to replace the disastrous NAFTA trade deal," Trump said. "In fact, unfair trade is perhaps the single biggest reason that I decided to run for President. Following NAFTA's adoption, our Nation lost one in four manufacturing jobs.
Many politicians came and went, pledging to change or replace NAFTA -- only to do absolutely nothing. But unlike so many who came before me, I keep my promises. Six days ago, I replaced NAFTA and signed the brand new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law."
The USMCA, Trump maintained, "will create nearly 100,000 new high-paying American auto jobs, and massively boost exports for our farmers, ranchers, and factory workers. It will also bring trade with Mexico and Canada to a much higher degree, but also to a much greater level of fairness and reciprocity. This is the first major trade deal in many years to earn the strong backing of America's labor unions."
Honored guests -- and a shocking reunion
Limbaugh, who announced on Monday he is battling advanced lung cancer, unexpectedly received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the address, courtesy of First Lady Melania Trump.
"Thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our country," Trump said as Limbaugh rose.
"Rush, in recognition of all that you have done for our Nation, the millions of people a day that you speak to and inspire, and all of the incredible work that you have done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I will now ask the First Lady of the United States to please stand and present you with the honor."
Watch: Trump salutes Rush Limbaugh at the State of the Union
Rush Limbaugh is a true patriot and Great American!
Separately, after touting his criminal-justice reform bill, Trump pushed Congress to build what he called an "an inclusive society" by "making sure that every young American gets a great education and the opportunity to achieve the American Dream." He turned his attention to one student in the chamber.
"To rescue these students, 18 States have created school choice in the form of Opportunity Scholarships," Trump said. "The programs are so popular, that tens of thousands of students remain on waiting lists.
One of those students is Janiyah Davis, a fourth grader from Philadelphia. Janiyah's mom Stephanie is a single parent. She would do anything to give her daughter a better future. But last year, that future was put further out of reach when Pennsylvania's Governor vetoed legislation to expand school choice for 50,000 children.
"Janiyah and Stephanie are in the gallery this evening," Trump said. "But there is more to their story. Janiyah, I am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over.
I can proudly announce tonight that an Opportunity Scholarship has become available, it is going to you, and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice!
Now, I call on the Congress to give 1 million American children the same opportunity Janiyah has just received. Pass the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act -- because no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government school."
Pelosi stared ahead, apparently reading from a copy of Trump's speech as other lawmakers cheered.
"Opportunity Zones are helping Americans like Army Veteran Tony Rankins from Cincinnati, Ohio," Trump additionally remarked, bringing Sen. Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., to her feet.
Sinema, who notably did not wear white as some of her colleagues did as a show of feminine solidarity, was one of a handful of Democrats to stand and applaud during Trump's remarks at various points.
"After struggling with drug addiction, Tony lost his job, his house, and his family -- he was homeless. But then Tony found a construction company that invests in Opportunity Zones. He is now a top tradesman, drug-free, reunited with his family, and he is here tonight. Tony: Keep up the great work."
Later, Trump honored Charles McGee, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American pilots who fought in World War II.
"Charles McGee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one century ago," Trump said. "Charles is one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen -- the first black fighter pilots -- and he also happens to be Iain's great-grandfather. After more than 130 combat missions in World War II, he came back to a country still struggling for Civil Rights and went on to serve America in Korea and Vietnam. On December 7th, Charles celebrated his 100th birthday.
A few weeks ago, I signed a bill promoting Charles McGee to Brigadier General. And earlier today, I pinned the stars on his shoulders in the Oval Office. General McGee: Our Nation salutes you."
The president also honored Kelli and Gage Hake, who lost their father, Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Hake, to a roadside bomb reportedly funded by Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general slain in a U.S. drone strike earlier this year. Soleimani had recently organized a proxy militia's assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
In perhaps the night's most unexpected moment -- which was not included in the prepared remarks provided in advance to reporters -- the president introduced a soldier who had just gotten back from his fourth deployment to Afghanistan.
“War places a heavy burden on our nation’s extraordinary military families, especially spouses like Amy Williams from Fort Bragg, N.C. and her two children, six-year-old Eliana and three-year-old Rowan,” Trump said.
“Amy works full time and volunteers countless hours helping other military families," the president continued. "For the past seven months, she has done it all while her husband Sgt. 1st Class Townsend Williams is in Afghanistan on his fourth deployment to the Middle East. Amy’s kids haven’t seen their father’s face in many months. Amy, your family’s sacrifice makes it possible for all of our families to live in safety and peace, and we want to thank you.
“Amy, there is one more thing,” Trump went on, as the chamber erupted. “Tonight we have a very special surprise. I am thrilled to inform you that your husband is back from deployment. He is here with us tonight and we couldn’t keep him waiting any longer.”
Sgt. Williams, a U.S. Army paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, entered the gallery to resounding cheers from both sides of the aisle.
Some prominent Democrats, including Reps. Maxine Waters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were not in attendance for the speech or the drama that unfolded, saying they were doing so out of protest.
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution dictates that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union.” George Washington delivered the first such speech to Congress.
Bonus Editor Note
I didn't notice reps maxine waters and alexandria ocasio cortez were not in attendance. I am glad they decided to not attend because I consider them a disgrace to Americans.
The democrate party if totally corrupt and is also a disgrace to a majority of Americans.
This same majority of Americans will reelect President Trump and I hope have a majority in the house of representatives and senate.
Nancy pelosi needs to be removed as speaker of the house.
Her hate for America and Americans was on display again during President Trump's MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN State Of The Union speech.
Her hate for America and the democrate party's hate for America was on display for all to see.
